Feryal Gauhar - The Scent of Wet Earth lyrics

Feryal Ali Gauhar (1959- ) Pakistan Feryal Ali Gauhar (1959– ) is a novelist, columnist, filmmaker, actor, and a development worker. She was born and brought up in Lahore and educated at the Lahore American School. She studied abroad at McGill University, Canada, and the University of London, UK, and studied film and television at the University of Southern California. She has worked for fifteen years in development communication, focusing on marginalization, poverty, and the nexus between women and the environment. From 1999 to 2005 she was a Goodwill Amba**ador for the United Nations Population Fund. Currently, Ali Gauhar teaches the history, theory, and technology of film at Pakistan's National College of Arts, and lectures on women and development at other institutes. She is working toward a Ph.D. in cultural conservation and management. She is a contributor to Dawn, and wrote the screenplays for her two films, Pezwaan (1994) and Tibbi Galli (1997). She developed the latter into her first novel The Scent of Wet Earth in August (Penguin Books India, 2002). Her second novel, No Space for Further Burials (Women Unlimited, 2007), has been translated into French and is being translated into other European languages, Persian, and Pashto.